Given name & surname
Keifer
“one who makes barrels”
Keifer is a variant of Kiefer. One German interpretation is “one who makes barrels.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Keifer is a variant of Kiefer. One German interpretation is “one who makes barrels.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Keifer is a variant of Kiefer. An origin associated with Kiefer is German.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Keifer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,155
- 1,155 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 131 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,364 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −48%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,364 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 131 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,010 as a first name in 2020; 2,165 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Keifer
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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